Designs with special faceplates were sold as a customization feature. The Game Boy Micro features removable, decorative housing called a faceplate. The shape itself is oblong, similar to the style of the Nintendo Entertainment System controller. Additionally, it has a backlit screen with the ability to adjust the brightness. It is incompatible with the Nintendo e-Reader and other peripherals due to similar design issues. Although it still has the required LR35902 processor and graphics hardware necessary to run games from older Game Boy systems, it lacks other internal hardware necessary for backward compatibility. It cannot play original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games due to design changes. The Game Boy Micro retains some of the functionality of the Game Boy Advance SP, but with a more compact form factor. The control pad has a similar design to the later Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo 3DS systems. It was released in China as the iQue Game Boy Micro on October 1, 2005, and later released in South Korea on November 9, 2005. The system was released in Japan on September 13, 2005, in North America on September 19, 2005, in Australia on November 3, 2005., and in Europe on November 4, 2005.
The Game Boy Micro was announced by Nintendo of America's vice president of sales and marketing, Reggie Fils-Aimé, at the company's Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference on May 17, 2005. Ltd president Satoru Iwata, was "unusual for Nintendo". Developed under the code name "Oxy", the company tried many ways to see how small they could make the Game Boy, opting for a metallic casing that, according to Nintendo Co. Harrison explained that unlike the traditional console development process, Nintendo was always thinking about new ideas for the Game Boy, describing it as a "continuous process of invention". According to Nintendo of America vice president George Harrison, the idea for a smaller version of the Game Boy was first discussed in 2004.
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